Improvement in measuring-caddies



J. URBED. Measuring-Caddies.

Patented Feb. 5

ATTORNEYS.

"METERS, PHOTO-UTHOGHAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.. JAMES o. REED, OF DE wrrr, IOWA. I

IMPROVEMENT IN MEASURlNG-CADDIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,933, dated February5, 1878; application filed June 25, 1877.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. REED of De Witt, in the county of Clintonand btate of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Measuring-Caddy, ofwhich the following is a specification In the accompanying drawing,Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improvedmeasuring-caddy, taken on line a: m, Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse section of the same on line 3 Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish for groceries, tea and coffeestores, and for other purposes, an improved measuringcaddy, by whichsmall quantities of tea, coffee, spices, and similar articles may bemeasured rapidly at a saving of time and help, and without the use ofweights and scoop, the goods being kept closed up, so as to retain theirflavor and strength.

The more accurate and uniform mode of measuring produces, besides thesavingin tim e, also a saving in measuring, as compared to the loose andcareless way in ordinary weighmg.

The invention consists of a caddy or other receptacle with *hoppershapedbottom, and with a sliding hopper-shaped receptacle below the same, thatis adjustedin size to the weight of the material to be measured by meansof a movable end wall and adj listing-screw. When the sliding bottom isdrawn back to discharge the quantity measured therein the bottom openingof the caddy is closed by the solid front part of the sliding bottom.

In the drawing, A represents a caddy-box, drum, or other receptacle forcoifee, tea, spices, and similar articles.

The receptacle A is provided with a top lid and hopper-shaped bottom, B,that opens by its mouth into a sliding bottom measure, 0, also of hoppershape, that registers with the bottom opening of the receptacle A.

The sliding bottom measure 0 is guided in a suitable casing, 0 at thebottom of the caddy, being stopped in one direction by the hinged andlocked face-door of the guidecasing, and when drawn back in oppositedirection by a side stop, a, of the casing engaging a stop or shoulder,b, of the sliding bottom.

The size of the hopper-shaped measuring part of the sliding bottom 0 maybe made larger or smaller by means of a sliding rear wall and sides, D,that is adjusted by a setscrew, D, turning in the rear end of bottom 0and in the threaded hole of a U-shaped support, (I, of the movable wallD, as shown in Fig. 1.

The sliding bottom 0 is taken out and placed on a scale or balance, andthere adjusted by the movable rear wall to the quantity to be measured,whether one-fourth, one-half, or one pound, by placing the coffee, tea,or other article with which the caddy is to be filled into themeasuring-bottom until the accurate quantity is obtained. The slidingmeasure is then replaced and pushed into the casing up to the frontdoor, the caddy being then filled with the article to be measuredtherefrom. The measuring portion of the bottom 0 is filled automaticallyfrom the caddy through the registering-bottom aperture, and the exactquantity required taken up therein. By drawing back the bottom 0 thesolid front portion of the same acts as a cut-off to the caddy, so as toclose the bottom aperture of the same, while the hopper-opening of themeasuring portion registers with a discharge-spout or hopper, 0 at therear part of the guide-casing O and conducts the quantity measured offinto the bag or other package. The bottom is then pushed in again, andthereby filled from the caddy, so that the quantity to which the bottommeasure is adjusted may be furnished in quicker and as reliable manneras with the scales at present in use.

Having thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. The combination, with the dischargeopening of a caddyor other receptacle having bottom guide-casing with rear spout, of asliding bottom, having adjustable measuring portion and solid eut'offfront portion, to disbination with a sliding rear wall and side chargethe quantity measured off and close -g11ide-Walls,and an adjusting-screwto sethopbottom opening of caddy, substantially as speoiper portion toany desired Weight to be measfied. ured, substantially as set forth.

2. The sliding bottom 0, guided in bottom JAMES C. REED. easing of caddyor other receptacle, and hav- Witnesses: ing solid front portion, actingas cutoff, and J. O. BENEDICT,

a hopper-shaped measuring portion, in oom- WV. R. ENGLISH.

